Waterfront is a television drama set in Providence, Rhode Island that
was originally scheduled to be a midseason replacement on CBS in 2007, but was shelved by the
network in 2006 before any of its five completed episodes had
aired. The series was produced by Warner Bros. Television.

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The focal point of this program revolves around the way
government operates in the Ocean State and how it plays out in the
lives of these two individuals, with the Mayor trying to deal with
a corruption scandal that resulted in his ex-Deputy Mayor being
indicted, his police chief under fire for letting a famous baseball
player go after a DUI only to find out later after that melee that
the aforementioned driver was involved in a hit-and-run, and to
make matters worse, the person who witnessed the hit-and-run was
found dead with a gun that was stolen from the Mayor's home.

It turns out that the Mayor's road to city hall was paved with
help from the mafia and he is trying to distance himself from that
after learning of the weapon that was used in the shooting. That is
all the fuel an ambitious newspaper editor needs to take him down,
and by any means at his disposal.

On top of all this, it turns out that the Mayor also to deal
with family problems at home from his second wife, his youngest
daughter and his stepdaughter, as well as his daughter from his
first marriage...who is also the prosecutor in the hit-and-run
case.

She also happens to be the star prosecutor in the Attorney
General's office, where the person in charge of that role has
already set his sights on being Rhode Island's next governor.
Despite his popularity, his goal could affect the future of the
Mayor's office and the Mayor himself.

All of these events, and what happens along the way, will be
observed by the city's new Deputy Mayor (Larenz Tate), who puts it in the opening
narration - "the biggest city in the smallest state" where the
mayor is often more powerful than the governor.